Twin Dragon GP as Shinada: How?

[StormRangerX]

I'm not getting any headway with this. First two rounds are a cakewalk and no matter what I do in the third round my partner dies before I can even double team one of the opponents, then I just get stomped in 1v2. Enemies escape his grabs more often than not and his one powerful combo with the grab after combo finisher is blocked most of the time. Every time my heat gets high enough I get grabbed and for some reason can't do the grab reversal on these enemies so I end up losing all my heat before I can break free. Can't use weapons and can't rely on grabs, the only thing Shinada is good at. What the heck do I do here?

[kirbo]

there are a few enemies that have higher HP than others, i found it easier to reroll them until the super tanky ones didn't show up. this one is not as bad as having to do v100 and Limited Berserk (bless your soul when you get to those).

overall gang up in 1 guy and deplete their HP, that makes it easier

[StormRangerX]

I keep trying to do that but every attempt I end up in a 1v1 at best, and even then I'll have no health left by the time that happens so I'm just limping through a fight that will end if I make a single mistake. Does Shinada have any kind of cheese strat for this?

[kirbo]

Originally posted by StormRangerX:

I keep trying to do that but every attempt I end up in a 1v1 at best, and even then I'll have no health left by the time that happens so I'm just limping through a fight that will end if I make a single mistake. Does Shinada have any kind of cheese strat for this?

Shinada does have cheese, he has ashura spirit to keep healing as long as you have heat.

if you're not level 25 you really should not be attempting the coliseum yet, all skills improve your chances of victory. if you end up in a 1v1 just play it safe and keep running until you can heal, then do small punches, safe and slow does it. I did that for ultimate berserk even though it took me like 10 minutes on the final guy alone

[StormRangerX]

Well I ended up getting the final round against Scorpio and Antonio who were laughably weak compared to the Dark Heroes and Akira teams I kept losing to. So I guess it just comes down to RNG on the matchup.

[StormRangerX]

While on the topic of Shinada, what is the timing for Secret of Guard Breaking? I can reliably do stuff like Tiger Drop and the like and it's very clear when those actually trigger, but I can't figure out what's going on with this ability.

[kirbo]

Originally posted by StormRangerX:

While on the topic of Shinada, what is the timing for Secret of Guard Breaking? I can reliably do stuff like Tiger Drop and the like and it's very clear when those actually trigger, but I can't figure out what's going on with this ability.

that is his counter ? i don't recall
unfortunately shinada's "counter" is terrible, as most enemies will break from the grab anyways. it may as well not exist.

[StormRangerX]

Secret of Guard Breaking says that if you hit the button at the right time, the next attack in your combo will break the enemy's guard. Mainly lets you actually reliably do the heavy-grab combo as guard has to be broken for that. I just can't figure out what the actual timing is.

[kirbo]

Originally posted by StormRangerX:

Secret of Guard Breaking says that if you hit the button at the right time, the next attack in your combo will break the enemy's guard. Mainly lets you actually reliably do the heavy-grab combo as guard has to be broken for that. I just can't figure out what the actual timing is.

aah, not sure, i never noticed anything from those types of skills when i played

[StormRangerX]

Yeah I don't really get the ability. All the characters have something like it available after the breakthrough but its all just a vague "with the right timing" and no indication of what the right timing is.